Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California sanctuary, Wyntoon, for an estimated $2.000,000 annual return. Berlin has also invested in new properties whenever the risk looked good. Hearst's stable of 13 magazines, one of the relatively few consistent moneymakers in the empire, has grown by the addition of Sports Afield (1953) and Popular Mechanics (1958). With Avon (117 new titles last year), Businessman Berlin picked up a growing firm in a growing field...
...most intimate friends - United Press, Associated Press, and Meester Reuter!" The Devil's Disciple (Hecht-Hill-Lancaster & Brynaprod; United Artists). Its carpingest critic said of this 1897 comedy: "It will assuredly lose its gloss with the lapse of time, and leave itself exposed as the threadbare popular melodrama it technically is." The critic also happened to be the play's author, George Bernard Shaw. Rashly ignoring the warning of a wise old showman, Hollywood has at tempted to put new life into the languid old yarn about shenanigans in Revolutionary War days. The British side (Sir Laurence Olivier...
...homes. They discovered only one place that approached a formal jazz club-a small cabaret in Leningrad. The big surprise was how well up the Russians are on every U.S. style from old-time gutbucket New Orleans to brassy progressive jazz and the slightly atonal West Coast styles so popular in 1959. How do the Russians find out? Simply by taping everything they hear over the Voice of America and by smuggling records through Poland. In literally dozens of homes, the U.S. visitors found big tape collections; one Moscow physicist, who plays "a real cool saxophone." had everything from Ella...
...time payments-and particularly about the fate of defaulters-showed up strongly at the American National Exhibition in Moscow. While publicly deploring U.S. consumers who put themselves in debt, Soviet officials have quietly experimented with installment buying for two years. A trial in Odessa last February was hugely popular, although sloppy bookkeeping ended the venture...
Died. Claude Grahame-White, 79, popular barnstorming pilot of aviation's infancy, Britain's first qualified pilot, who demonstrated the multiple uses of the airplane: he was the first to carry mail by air (letters from London to King George V at Windsor), the first to try night flying (boys trained their bicycle lights on the runway to help him take off; friends formed a procession of automobile lights along his route), the first to mount a machine gun on a plane and later use it in dogfights in World War I; in Nice, France...